Wise as usual

This New Year's Day I'm thinking about Gramsci, who said: 'All days are New Year's, but not all days have in society the function of new years. Now is the time of New Year's'

i do not like it but i’ll play

My fave is in the Crime section. Its Homicide: Life on Sesame Street.

Every research project starts with a question and ends with a folder called “final_FINAL_reallyfinal2”

I’m really being pretty good about this but I had to complain to someone. “All I Need for Christmas Is You” was streamed 102M times last week. Thank you for listening. also h/t @numlock.com.

Just in time for the holidays! Alexandra Petri: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

It's the last few days before Christmas. Buy safe gifts for kids!

I lost my job, was evicted from my home by by private equity landlord, and am now living under a bridge. But at least now the people walking by aren't saying "Happy Holidays" to me.

For those of us who need a moment in midst of holiday friends-and-family madness, I give you Carolyn Hax on puppeteer boyfriends. www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/...

Clear, simple, obvious: why isn’t everyone saying what Tim Wu said about monopoly, Netlix, Paramount and Discovery? Thx @karlbode for calling my attention to it. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

Holy crap chart from Gallup

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

White House Reclassifies Nursing As Hobby

What a great headline

Wishing you all a very happy Thanksgiving! Remember to stand by your pan today. Unattended cooking is the number one cause of home fires!

Keeping America safe from... [checks notes]... farm workers.

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

What FB posts do public media users respond to? No Kings day was a biiiiiiiig one: www.semipublic.co/p/no-kings-p...

Vulgar Marxism implies a Clean Edit Marxism, a Kidz Bop Marxism, a Marxism (Taylor's version) (all flavors of Marxism are, according to managers, NSFW)

Quiet part, meet out loud.

"When your heart is broken you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain." – Andrea Gibson

Need a briefing on current genAI copyright landscape, with some historical perspective? Pam Samuelson and Silicon Flatirons are here to help: siliconflatirons.org/wp-content/u... (there is video too!)

Colorado enacted a limited but crucial step forward against automated decision-making: the AI Act of 2024. We oppose weakening or delaying this law, and support strengthening it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Alex Jones launches GoFundMe to make face even puffier

The President of the United States just called for Democratic lawmakers to be killed. Trump is putting my colleagues’ lives at risk because they have exercised their free speech rights under the First Amendment and Speech and Debate Clause.

we are "ruled" by the worst people imaginable

Front page top of fold news, right?

Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged

in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.

The whole thread, people. Read the whole thread.

For those who, due to @mmasnick.bsky.social ’s brilliant repost of NE Ohio Sewer District’s blog post on storm water management (YESS!), are meeting them for the first time, I give you this immortal work, the best graduation speech ever.

I am such a devotee of NE Ohio Regional Sewer District.

My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?

🧵!! All I know is, in the basement of the UCLA library are 🔥 papers of men and women who went through the Red Scare & were vindicated in the end. It gives me hope, as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social likes to remind us, that despite these institutions, we are going to win.

🇧🇷 In #Brazil, - Solar grew from 0.01% in 2015 to 12% in 2025 - Met its 2030 renewable target 8 years early - Installed 60 GW of solar by Sept 2025 4/7

The real news from the COPP, thx @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When visiting our wolf, coyote, or jackal enclosures, keep in mind that the Greeneville Rule Book actually does say a dog can’t play basketball.

Live your life in such a way that if 20K pages of your files are released and someone builds a database of them, it doesn't crash because too many people want to search it simultaneously.

“The real sex crime here is not supporting our President,” Leavitt told reporters, before vanishing in a puff of foul smoke.

Ruh rho

This is what a corporate giveaway looks like 👇 #TaxJustice

This object capitulation by Schumer and Jefferies was appalling – – and so unnecessary and humiliating because they were winning the battle for public opinion and have the cards to win and save healthcare. I agree: primary any Dem who supports the failed leadership. Do you? www.indivisible2026.org

I wrote about what it means that the President fell for obvious (and not even very good) satire on "The Dunning Kruger Times" (yes, really).

A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major implications for copyright law, well beyond artificial intelligence. This is a guest post by @matthewsag.bsky.social, Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School

Copyright guru Matt Sag @matthewsag.bsky.social on copyright winter: www.authorsalliance.org/2025/11/10/c...

The Democrats have learned their lesson. by Susan Collins